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Fayette

Planning Commission members want to clarify a law that

prohibits subdivision streets more than 3,000 feet long.

The

commission last week approved Brent Scarbrough's plan for

36 homes on 135.6 acres on Antioch Road, including a

combination of two streets that, together, are over the

limit. As the law is written, it's unclear whether a

developer can get around the restriction by giving a

street two different names.

"We

need to clarify this," said commission member Jim

Graw.

The

subdivision, Jackson Estates, will have a combination of

lot sizes, ranging from two acres to five-plus acres.

Some of the land is zoned R-72, which allows lots as

small as two acres, and some of it A-R, which requires

five-acre lots.

In other

business in its monthly meeting last Thursday, the

commission voted to recommend approval of a set of

changes to county zoning ordinances that will create a

new technical review committee, plus some minor

adjustments to the wording of some ordinances.

The

technical review committee will jointly go over plats,

permit applications and other zoning and building

documents.

Currently,

those documents are routed through various departments

for comment without any interaction between the

departments, a situation that county administrator Billy

Beckett said sometimes allows for error.

For

instance, he said, on at least two occasions subdivision

plats have been approved with homes on one side of a road

and amenities on the other, something a thorough review

and discussion among representatives of several

departments at once might have prevented.

The County

Commission is scheduled to vote on creation of the new

committee during its June 24 business meeting, 7 p.m. at

the County Administrative Complex.

Commissioners

also will consider Greg Alvarez's request for a zoning

change from R-40 to C-C conditional (commercial) for .87

acres on Sumner Road. Alvarez wants to add the parcel to

his already approved office building site, and use it for

parking. Planning commissioners voted unanimously to

recommend approval.

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